✨Data Intelligence Lab@HKU✨

✨Data Intelligence Lab@HKU✨

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RAG-Anything: The Framework That Refuses to Pretend Documents Are Text
RAG-Anything: The Framework That Refuses to Pretend Documents Are Text
A tour of the ingestion pipeline, multimodal processors, and resilience machinery that turn messy files into graph-ready knowledge.
9 min read · May 13, 2026
ViMax: The Open-Source Film Studio That Teaches AI Video to Remember
ViMax: The Open-Source Film Studio That Teaches AI Video to Remember
A deep dive into the agentic pipeline, the camera tree, and the structured shot logic that try to solve the hardest problem in video generation: staying coherent from scene to scene.
10 min read · May 12, 2026
FastAgent: The Kanban-Driven Agent Framework for Research and Computer Use
FastAgent: The Kanban-Driven Agent Framework for Research and Computer Use
HKUDS splits planning, execution, and review into separate roles, then uses a shared board to keep the whole system legible, recoverable, and easier to debug.
11 min read · Apr 8, 2026
nanobot: The tiny AI agent kernel that treats Git as memory
nanobot: The tiny AI agent kernel that treats Git as memory
A self-hosted agent runtime with multi-channel reach, MCP-native tools, and a Dream memory system that turns long-term context into readable files instead of opaque state.
8 min read · Apr 8, 2026
MoChat treats agents like real participants, not bot accessories
MoChat treats agents like real participants, not bot accessories
An open-source messenger built for AI agents, human teams, and the messy middle between them.
11 min read · Apr 8, 2026
AI-Trader: The Marketplace Where Agents Argue Before They Trade
AI-Trader: The Marketplace Where Agents Argue Before They Trade
HKUDS turns trading into a social protocol. Agents read `SKILL.md`, register themselves, publish signals, debate strategy, and execute across stocks, crypto, and Polymarket.
11 min read · Apr 8, 2026
OpenPhone: PhoneCLI: The Mobile Agent That Compiles Your App Before It Clicks
OpenPhone: PhoneCLI: The Mobile Agent That Compiles Your App Before It Clicks
Instead of rethinking every screen with a vision model, PhoneCLI maps mobile navigation once, replays it as deterministic commands, and falls back to a model only when the UI is genuinely unfamiliar.
9 min read · Apr 8, 2026
CatchMe: The Open-Source Memory Tree for Local AI Agents
CatchMe: The Open-Source Memory Tree for Local AI Agents
It records desktop activity as events, closes them into hierarchical summaries, and gives agents a way to browse your day without a cloud vector index.
10 min read · Apr 8, 2026
FastCode: The Repo Indexer That Skims a Codebase Before It Reads It
FastCode: The Repo Indexer That Skims a Codebase Before It Reads It
HKUDS's open-source system turns repositories into layered structure, then retrieves just enough context to answer a question without flooding the model.
12 min read · Apr 8, 2026
Vibe-Trading: The Trading Agent That Compiles Prompts Into Strategies
Vibe-Trading: The Trading Agent That Compiles Prompts Into Strategies
HKUDS built a multi-agent finance workspace that turns natural language into backtests, market-specific code, and cross-platform exports for global trading workflows.
10 min read · Apr 7, 2026
AnyTool Treats Tool Sprawl Like Search
AnyTool Treats Tool Sprawl Like Search
HKUDS built a universal tool-use layer that narrows a noisy tool universe to the few calls that actually matter, then routes work through GUI, shell, MCP, or a sandboxed server.
11 min read · Apr 7, 2026
OpenHarness: The Python Harness That Turns Any LLM Into an Agent
OpenHarness: The Python Harness That Turns Any LLM Into an Agent
A deep dive into the control plane behind tool use, memory, permissions, and multi-agent coordination.
9 min read · Apr 7, 2026
Litewrite wants LaTeX to stop feeling like code
Litewrite wants LaTeX to stop feeling like code
The open-source editor pairs real-time collaboration, AI completion, and a shadow-document workflow so researchers can draft without breaking the source.
11 min read · Apr 7, 2026
DeepResearch-Eval: Teaching Benchmarks to Read Like Editors
DeepResearch-Eval: Teaching Benchmarks to Read Like Editors
HKUDS’s evaluation framework scores long AI research reports for structure, insight, redundancy, and factual grounding by pairing LLM judges with live web verification.
9 min read · Apr 6, 2026
ClawWork: The Benchmark That Makes AI Agents Pay Their Own Way
ClawWork: The Benchmark That Makes AI Agents Pay Their Own Way
HKUDS turns agent evaluation into a simulated economy, with task bounties, inference costs, occupation-specific judging, and a survival rule that punishes waste.
10 min read · Apr 6, 2026
FutureShow: The AI Battle Arena Where the Future is the Benchmark
FutureShow: The AI Battle Arena Where the Future is the Benchmark
How HKUDS is solving the LLM contamination crisis by forcing models to bet against the real-world wisdom of the crowd.
· Mar 29, 2026
CLI-Anything: The Great GUI Liquidation
CLI-Anything: The Great GUI Liquidation
How HKUDS is stripping the visual skin off professional software to arm the next generation of AI agents.
· Mar 28, 2026
DeepInnovator: Predicting the Next Great Idea
DeepInnovator: Predicting the Next Great Idea
How HKUDS and Alibaba are moving beyond "Deep Research" to automate the "Aha!" moment of scientific discovery through decoupled reinforcement learning.
· Mar 28, 2026
DeepTutor: The Tutor That Hides Its Own Thinking
DeepTutor: The Tutor That Hides Its Own Thinking
An open-source tutoring system that can spin up specialist agents, preserve a clean student transcript, and build a lasting memory of what each learner actually knows.
9 min read · Mar 28, 2026
LightReasoner: The Amateur's Guide to Expert Thought
LightReasoner: The Amateur's Guide to Expert Thought
How a tiny model's failures teach a giant model to reason with 99% less data.
· Mar 28, 2026
OpenSpace: The Skill Layer That Lets AI Agents Inherit Their Own Work
OpenSpace: The Skill Layer That Lets AI Agents Inherit Their Own Work
A deep dive into a self-evolving middleware for Claude Code, Cursor, and other MCP agents, where skills are repaired, reused, and ranked like living code.
8 min read · Mar 25, 2026
The POSIX-Native AI Swarm: Inside HKUDS/ClawTeam
The POSIX-Native AI Swarm: Inside HKUDS/ClawTeam
How a research lab bypassed complex API orchestration by using tmux, git worktrees, and filesystem locks to manage autonomous AI agents.
8 min read · Mar 23, 2026

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